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bcarter85's avatar
bcarter85
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago

Information Window on TestExecute Start

Because of limited disk space where we have TestExecute installed, I need to delete local logs after I've exported/emailed them. I was initially going to do this at the very end of the day via a scri...
  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    5 years ago

    Generally speaking, you probably should not just simply delete the logs off the hard drive in the matter in which you're doing.  That .tcLogs file tracks what logs are "attached" to the project so, when you delete the actual logs, when the project starts up, it tries to find the files and, therefore, generates the message when it cannot.

     

    If you want to "purge" logs on a regular basis, I believe someone has already mentioned that you should set your "Number of recent logs to keep" setting to a lower value.  This is a per-machine setting, configured within the TestExecute application.  Run TestExecute standalone, right click on the icon in your systray, select "Options", go to "Engines -> Log" and set the "Store all logs" flag to be UNCHECKED and set the "Number of recent logs to keep" setting to something smaller... 3 or 4 depending upon how much history you want.

     

    Doing so will have TestExecute automatically DELETE logs on start up of the project, starting with the oldest, until the number of logs stored equals that setting.  This automatically updates the .tcLogs file and you won't get that message.

bcarter85's avatar
bcarter85
Occasional Contributor

sonya_mNo, I was not able to resolve it. I was able to delete the files from the drive, but it still requires manual intervention in order to not have the popup the next time TestExecute automatically opens. I could not find a way for TC to open and edit the tcLogs files.

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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
5 years ago

Generally speaking, you probably should not just simply delete the logs off the hard drive in the matter in which you're doing.  That .tcLogs file tracks what logs are "attached" to the project so, when you delete the actual logs, when the project starts up, it tries to find the files and, therefore, generates the message when it cannot.

 

If you want to "purge" logs on a regular basis, I believe someone has already mentioned that you should set your "Number of recent logs to keep" setting to a lower value.  This is a per-machine setting, configured within the TestExecute application.  Run TestExecute standalone, right click on the icon in your systray, select "Options", go to "Engines -> Log" and set the "Store all logs" flag to be UNCHECKED and set the "Number of recent logs to keep" setting to something smaller... 3 or 4 depending upon how much history you want.

 

Doing so will have TestExecute automatically DELETE logs on start up of the project, starting with the oldest, until the number of logs stored equals that setting.  This automatically updates the .tcLogs file and you won't get that message.

  • bcarter85's avatar
    bcarter85
    Occasional Contributor
    5 years ago

    This had been brought up before, but I did not realize that it was a per machine option. I did not set it as I need to keep logs on my development machine when creating/debugging tests. Thank you!